CHINA – Under China's ‘Plastic Bag Ban’  retailers are obliged to impose charges for the supply of plastic shopping bags. Although the Law doesn't become effective until 1 June 2008, Tianjin province, in northeast China, has launched the country’s first pilot project to charge consumers for plastic shopping bags at major supermarket outlets. This is in advance of the 1 June 2008 implementation deadline for the Plastic Shopping Bag Law which bans the production, all retail outlets from handing out free plastic shopping bags.

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